SC, Are you sure the PPLNS pool is working properly? We can't even find a NMC block, +400 hours on BTC...I feel like we're digging a hole to nowhere!

Nah, I know that you know what you're doing, but this is ridiculous!

We have had a lot of bad luck at the PPLNS pool but not enough for me to be suspicious. Of our last 3 blocks, one was in August! Given that the proportional pool is paying out I see no reason for there to be a problem with the PPLNS pool. So long as the pool holds at 10 GH/s we should be seeing 2 Namecoin Blocks a day on average and so I fully expect to see at least one Namecoin block today.

Any idea why the proportional pool is more popular than the PPLNS pool? The proportional pool had a higher hash rate even late in the last round when shares were actually worth less than at the PPLNS pool.

The estimate for btc/nmc pool is the same on btc block as it is on nmc block but it is clearly only accurate based on nmc shares per block. As soon as I stopped mining and nmc block got found my remaining estimate got cleared and moved to unconfirmed nmc and my btc estimate got set to 0 as if I am in a new btc block thus from what I can see removing all my previous btc submitted shares from the btc block.

So clearly its not working right since there is now no trace of any btc mining on the btc/nmc pool for me ?

...In the land of the stale, the man with one share is king... >> Clipse

The estimate for btc/nmc pool is the same on btc block as it is on nmc block but it is clearly only accurate based on nmc shares per block. As soon as I stopped mining and nmc block got found my remaining estimate got cleared and moved to unconfirmed nmc and my btc estimate got set to 0 as if I am in a new btc block thus from what I can see removing all my previous btc submitted shares from the btc block.

So clearly its not working right since there is now no trace of any btc mining on the btc/nmc pool for me ?

No, the estimate is just wrong. Your btc shares didn't go away.

I'm in the process of fixing the estimates and adding shares by currency to the stats pages.